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For the third home league game in a row, Dale have been outplayed and embarrassed. We have scored ONCE in the past 5 league games. Dale are mostly bloody boring to watch, whoever they play. Entertainment? Where? No mention of the above in a post-match manager interview which screams weakness. Apparently we, exclusively, struggle to play twice a week. Not that anyone else has to. No apology to fans for how awful we have been or how to remedy the crisis. He's even apologising in advance for next Tuesday when we play a part-time team with limited resources, but they have bags of team spirit, effective tactics and effort. Things McNulty's Dale don't. They have also drawn three and lost two of their last five games, just like Jim's full time Dale have, so why the high praise? Tippy tappy tripe has been a theme throughout McNulty's management here. It's ineffectual, and he can't learn that little lads playing like that in this league does not work unless you catch Yeovil or AFC Fylde on a bad day. Plan B is to launch it to a forward that very very rarely wins the ball in the air. Seemingly, that's all we can do. Post-match conversations with fellow supporters have been depressing to listen to, but make sense. Being realistic, we are going nowhere at all repeating this managers same old same old philosophy of failure, and that disrespects the owners and fans of RAFC. What McNulty puts on the pitch isn't acceptable at any level. It is wet lettuce football. The boos he got when applauding The Sandy were well deserved. Folk have had enough. Bye bye Jim, all the best.
If we look at the last three home performances, anyone can turn us over at Spotland / COA - top of table, bottom of table or in a "derby". It is that easy.
Otherwise engaged tonight, so haven't been to or seen the game. The record shows our defence is sound. Messages from friends and what I read on here are so much in agreement. Shot shy, toothless up front, pass pass pass pass pass pass, nothing. There is also pass sideways, pass sideways, pass sideways, pass backwards, pass sideways, pass backwards. Nothing. Repeat ad infinitum. This has been the way for so many games this season. It's boring, ineffectual and drains enthusiasm from lifelong fans. It was said at the last Fans Forum, we as fans need to play our part to encourage better attendances. Agreed. We won't lie that bad football is good to encourage family and friends to watch. Project 5000 is not going to happen as it stands. We need to be able to go into the local, club, workplace etc, and sell great football. What we see is Project 500 football. Change the football or change the manager if he can't change it. We can't sell what we are seeing now. Jim's excuse of our goalscoring failure(s) in the post-match tonight is awful. Thank you Sam Waller.
He (Adam) was present, albeit online, at the last AGM and dealt with financial matters in a way that showed he was on top of the detail and, I guess, the move to Xero accounting software.
Like Mr Willoughby at the Fans Forum, impressive. New bods, who know what they are doing.
When the EGM is held re: articles of association, it'll be interesting to see how many directors said articles require for our board to be quorate. Who we need, who we don't and how the majority shareholder decides what is best.
Haven't seen that game but there is a lot of online comment about Mr Oliver's officiating last night.
As for this National League season, It's no worse than League 1 or 2 for refereeing standards. The ever poor Marsden was weak v BIFFO's but in general, the refs aren't terrible in this division IMHO. Seen much worse from the likes of Styles, Walton, Marsden et al in the EFL in years gone by.
There's been a fair few post-match interviews by Jim where he states "performance" is the main thing for him, irrespective of result. He doesn't state that after the awful performance v Ebbsfleet and dances round the awful performance v Oldham. Unconvincing, Greg.
It's been mentioned in other posts. I don't like the guy but his apology for his team providing rubbish, with a team that was awful, is honest. He aims for change, apologises to travelling fans and takes responsibility. Dale fans travelled from Malta to watch that aberration v Oldham. Our manager gives them nothing. Speaks volumes, Greg.
This thread has been proof of what sincere, committed and loyal Dale fans have observed in the team that represents us now. Nothing nasty, just thoughtful, honest reflections of an awful game yesterday, and last Tuesday. We aren't "professionals", but we have watched far more football concerning RAFC and learned accordingly. We want to make it better.
Fans remarking on tactics seen at that game that are, frankly, making our team worse. Tactics and processes that we've seen repeated far too often under this coach. We want to make it better.
He's been given funds and chosen to allocate wages on far too many similar players, because he likes samey. That's naïve and wasteful, especially in a league that requires a few big lads. We've had a good result here and there that is true, but RAFC is so obvious to opponents, and easily disabled in its one strategy. (Yeovil is clearly now a one off). We want to make it better.
Either Jim changes his approach or Jim has to be changed. No malice, we want to make it better for RAFC.
That was one of the most painful to watch games I've ever seen as a Dale fan. We were weak as p*** v Oldham, today we were just totally clueless. You all saw what went on.
What really did my head in was a repeated mistake from last Tuesday. Opposition have a corner attacking our goal in time added on. We didn't leave a man or two up near the centre circle to take advantage of a possible breakaway. Today, from the corner, Waller caught the ball and had the perfect opportunity to launch it up to the man / men near the centre circle in the endeavour to score a goal..... men who weren't there, again. Is it the mythical "coaching manual" or managerial incompetence? Clueless.
Don't shoot, only put a cross in when you get to the oppositions goal line, never before, look backwards rather than forwards and pass accordingly in all areas of the pitch. How many games has that approach ever won?
In the short time since the Yeovil victory, Dale have become unwatchable, reverting to the worst traits of Jim's managerial "acumen" .
Best to knock a 0 off "Project 5000" if that's the best we can do. I've seen us get some pastings in the past but today was as unattractive as anyone would want to see from their team. Utter rubbish. Sideways. Always.
Showed Dale up for being so lightweight, a big failing in Jim's teams. One Calvin Andrew would have contributed more than Mitchell and Rodney did together tonight. Why oh why do we sign 6 or 7 samey midfield whippets when we need some muscle and grit for a game like this, games which will occur regularly in this league. Something MRKT clearly can't get its head round. Where is the Gary Jones type leader? Going backwards (literally!) to the tippy tappy sideways backwards at the back in the second half when we're losing, and tippy tappy around the opposition box instead of firing a few shots in - bewildering. Oldham have a corner with 2 minutes to go. We STILL don't leave a man up (Allarakhia would have been ideal) to give the opportunity of a punt / breakaway to equalise because the "coaching manual" says different. Bewildering. Jim says we didn't play with enough passes - there was so much time wasted messing around passing the ball at crucial points in the game instead of acting incisively. Other tactics are available. Apparently "the tension got to us tonight". Why? That should have been dealt with by the manager. "The tension" didn't get to Oldham. Poor post-match by Jim. Blaming a pitch they lost on and Oldham won on isn't a viable excuse. Jim has the potential to be a good manager but he is so slow to learn from mistakes we can all see and are discussed between friends post-match far too often. A wake up call indeed.
The ineffectual, attention seeking charade goes on, even though everyone can see through it. Sad that someone should dedicate so much time to such a waste of time. When will the fish on a hook graphic defence be deployed?
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